I’m talking about before we figured out we could grow vegetables and fruits. Early humans are often shown as being fit and in shape, yet our diet pretty much only consisted of meat. We were hunters. So why the hell were they so fit? I thought a healthy diet mattered more than just being active constantly?
Why would early humans have a mostly meat diet? There’s plenty of foragable herbs, vegetables, and fruits to eat. Go to anywhere near the equator. Bananas grow on the trees.
We also have archeological evidence that producing beer happened before agriculture. So us humans were clearly pretty experimental with food.
Ancient humans probably ate a great diversity of plant life than we did!
The fruits and vegetables that we know today are nothing like those from 10k years ago. Bananas of today didn’t exist even a few 100 years ago.
Yes but there were and still are wild, edible fruit and vegetables. Humans were hunter gatherers. We have always eaten whatever we could get a hold of. We’re omnivores for a reason.
Yes but they were not what we have today. Lower sugar content. More hardy. Tougher skins. Less yield.
The claim that was being refuted was that humans ate a diet that “pretty much only consisted of meat”. That is not the case despite the fact that our crops today are bred to be larger and more calorie dense. Humans did eat vegetable and fruit alongside meat in our ancient past.
The wild ancestors of our modern food did exist. And there’s a reason we have highly advanced cultivars of those foods, it’s because people were eating them before they were cultivated. Once agriculture started, people took the foods they regularly foraged and started to grow them. Then they would replant the ones they liked and toss/eat the seeds of the ones they didn’t. Do that a few thousand years and you’ve got highly edible and great tasting produce, but it all started with people trying to grow what they already ate.
Yes but they were not what we have today. Lower sugar content. More hardy. Tougher skins. Less yield.
Bananas grow on a herbaceous flowering plant.
Keep in mind that there is no such thing as a tree. They are tall and sturdy and woody and have a bunch of leaves on top, it is not unreasonable to call a banana plant a tree. Hell, the Wikipedia page for “Tree” goes back and forth on broader and narrower definitions and whether bananas and bamboo and so on count within them.
what I get from this comment is that trees are the crabs of the plant world
edit ~ oh, yes, that’s actually more or less the central idea of your link and the first comparison made. I’m still working on my morning coffee…
Your source claims
However we all know wood is that which is scary.